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There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society, with a
large segment of people in that society, who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that they have nothing to lose.
People who have a stake in their society, protect that society, but when they dont have it, they unconsciously want to destroy
it.
Martin Luther King Jr
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Rosa Parks Quotes "I
would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people,"
said Rosa Parks on the occasion of her 77th birthday. And so she is.
Parks, known as "the mother of the civil
rights movement," walked into history on December 1, 1955 when she refused to give up her seat for a white man on a Montgomery,
Alabama bus. Parks was arrested for her defiance, and she agreed to challenge the segregation order in court. After this tactic
failed, Parks and others organized the Montgomery bus boycott: "For a little more than a year, we stayed off those busses.
We did not return to using public transportation until the Supreme Court said there shouldn't be racial segregation."
“As
Americans, we can take enormous pride in the fact that courage has been inspired by our own struggle for freedom, by the tradition
of democratic law secured by our forefathers and enshrined in our Constitution. It is a tradition that says all men are created
equal under the law and that no one is above it.”
President Barack Obama 2009
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